Purity, a Middle English poem, ed. with introduction, notes, and glossary by Robert J. Menner.

                                  
                                    Ho herde hym chyde to þe chambre þat watz þe chef quene.
                                  
                                    When ho watz wytered bi wyȝes what watz þe cause,
                                  
                                    Suche a chaungande chaunce in þe chef halle,
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                                    Þe lady to lauce þat los þat þe lorde hade, [M. lauce; M. note lance(?); Fi. suggests layte(!).] 
                                  
                                    Glydes doun by þe grece and gos to þe kyng;
                                  
                                    Ho kneles on þe colde erþe, and carpes to hymselven
                                  
                                    Wordes of worchyp wyth a wys speche.
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                                    'Kene kyng,' quod þe quene, 'kayser of urþe,
                                  
                                    Ever laste þy lyf in lenþe of dayes!
                                  
                                    Why hatz þou rended þy robe, forredles hereinne, [MS. for redles; M. 1 for-redles; M. 2 for redles.] 
                                  
                                    Þaȝ þose ledes ben lewed lettres to rede,
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                                    And hatz a haþel in þy holde, as I haf herde ofte,
                                  
                                    Þat hatz þe gostes of God þat gyes alle soþes?
                                  
                                    His sawle is ful of syence, saȝes to schawe,
                                  
                                    To open uch a hide þyng of aunteres uncowþe.
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                                    Þat is he þat ful ofte hatz hevened þy fader
                                  
                                    Of mony anger ful hote wyth his holy speche.
                                  
                                    When Nabugodenozar watz nyed in stoundes,
                                  
                                    He devysed his dremes to þe dere trawþe,
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                                    He kevered hym wyth his counsayl of caytyf wyrdes;
                                  
                                    Alle þat he spured hym in space he expowned clene,
                                  
                                    Þurȝ þe sped of þe spyryt þat sprad hym wythinne
                                  
                                    Of þe godelest goddez þat gaynes aywhere.
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                                    For his depe divinite and his dere sawes,
                                  
                                    Þy bolde fader Baltazar bede by his name, [MS., M. by; M. note be(?).] 
                                  
                                    Þat now is demed Danyel of derne coninges,
                                  
                                    Þat caȝt watz in þe captyvide in cuntre of Jues;
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                                    Nabuzardan hym nome, and now is he here,
                                  
                                    A prophete of þat province and pryce of þe worlde.
                                  
                                    Sende into þe cete to seche hym bylyve,
                                  
                                    And wynne hym wyth þe worchyp to wayne þe bote;

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Title: Purity, a Middle English poem, ed. with introduction, notes, and glossary by Robert J. Menner.
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Publication: New Haven,: Yale university press; [etc., etc.]; 1920.

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